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Long-revered for its health benefits, watercress is still grown and harvested in the same chalk streams as it was by the Victorians, finds food historian Sam Bilton.
When you’re growing organically, you’ve got to really stay on your toes and always be ready to adapt to the conditions, writes grower Jono Smales.
Farm work is often undesirable and difficult, attracting only the fringes of society and overseas workers. So how can we make agricultural labour more attractive and finally address the labour shortages in the UK?
A permanent rise in grain prices could spell the end for cheap intensively farmed chicken, or open the floodgates to lower standard imports, according to farming insiders.
We are going to leave the future of our food and farming to market forces, and to the choices of consumers who are surrounded by foods that are killing them.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
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